While a co-worker or friend may expect a gift in the $50-75 range, someone in an urban market may have double the expectations. Here's the ballpark you should be aiming for: Coworker and/or a distant family friend or relative: $50-$75. Relative or friend: $75-$100.
The manuscript containing the story of Beowulf was discovered in England in the l600s. It is written in Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxon invaders who settled in England between A . D . 450 and 600. There is some debate about when Beowulf was written and who wrote it.
Beowulf is considered an artifact by many because it is the oldest of the English long poems and may have been composed more than twelve hundred years ago.(Beowulf 19) It deals with events of the early 6th century and is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750. No one knows who composed Beowulf, or why.